Review of ultrasound image guidance in external beam radiotherapy part II: intra-fraction motion management and novel applications

T O'Shea, J Bamber, D Fontanarosa… - Physics in medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging has become an essential tool in modern radiotherapy (RT), being used to plan dose
delivery prior to treatment and verify target position before and during treatment. Ultrasound …

Review of ultrasound image guidance in external beam radiotherapy: I. Treatment planning and inter-fraction motion management

D Fontanarosa, S Van der Meer… - Physics in medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In modern radiotherapy, verification of the treatment to ensure the target receives the
prescribed dose and normal tissues are optimally spared has become essential. Several …

Ionizing radiation‐induced acoustics for radiotherapy and diagnostic radiology applications

S Hickling, L **ang, KC Jones, K Parodi… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic waves are induced via the thermoacoustic effect in objects exposed to a pulsed
beam of ionizing radiation. This phenomenon has interesting potential applications in both …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-modality X-ray-induced radiation acoustic and ultrasound imaging for real-time monitoring of radiotherapy

L CarsonPaul, EI NaqaIssam - BME frontiers, 2020 - spj.science.org
Objective. The goal is to increase the precision of radiation delivery during radiotherapy by
tracking the movements of the tumor and other surrounding normal tissues due to respiratory …

Real-time tracking of the Bragg peak during proton therapy via 3D protoacoustic Imaging in a clinical scenario

S Wang, G Gonzalez, L Sun, Y Xu, P Pandey, Y Chen… - npj Imaging, 2024 - nature.com
Proton radiotherapy favored over X-ray photon therapy due to its reduced radiation
exposure to surrounding healthy tissues, is highly dependent on the accurate positioning of …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray free-electron laser induced acoustic microscopy (XFELAM)

S Choi, S Park, J Kim, H Kim, S Cho, S Kim, J Park… - Photoacoustics, 2024 - Elsevier
The X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) has remarkably advanced X-ray imaging technology
and enabled important scientific achievements. The XFEL's extremely high power, short …

High resolution X-ray-induced acoustic tomography

L **ang, S Tang, M Ahmad, L **ng - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Absorption based CT imaging has been an invaluable tool in medical diagnosis, biology
and materials science. However, CT requires a large set of projection data and high …

Opportunities for photoacoustic-guided drug delivery

J **a, C Kim, J F. Lovell - Current drug targets, 2015 - benthamdirect.com
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is rapidly becoming established as a viable imaging modality
for small animal research, with promise of near-future human clinical translation. In this …

X-ray luminescence and x-ray fluorescence computed tomography: new molecular imaging modalities

M Ahmad, G Pratx, M Bazalova, LEI **ng - Ieee Access, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
X-ray luminescence and X-ray fluorescence computed tomography (CT) are two emerging
technologies in X-ray imaging that provide functional and molecular imaging capability. Both …

Tomographic detection of photon pairs produced from high-energy X-rays for the monitoring of radiotherapy dosing

Q Lyu, R Neph, K Sheng - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring the radiation dose reaching a patient's body is difficult. Here we report a
technique for the tomographic reconstruction of the location of photon pairs originating from …